Remote Product Owner II — AI-Driven Health

American Specialty Health; United States; Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

American Specialty Health is seeking a Product Owner II to join our Product department. You will shape, refine, and prioritize what the team builds, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver outcomes that matter and improve health at scale.

You’ll work with an AI-first engineering team and lead backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and sprint planning while driving strategic product decisions across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; or equivalent experience required. If equivalent experience, High School Diploma required.
• 3 years experience working as a Product Owner or Business Analyst, with demonstrated ability to lead projects and Scrum teams is required.
• In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles. (High proficiency)
• Hands-on familiarity with AI tools (Copilot, Chat GPT, Claude, or similar) and genuine curiosity about how they can change the way product teams work. AI expertise is not required, but candidates should be actively learning and experimenting in this area. (High proficiency)
• Creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories. (High proficiency)
• Writing clear and concise acceptance criteria.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient problem solver with ability to motivate and lead the scrum team to an appropriate solution and time line.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner within 1-1/2 Yrs required.

Responsibilities

• Own the product backlog end-to-end: writing, refining, and prioritizing user stories that give the team clarity and room to move fast.
• Work with other departments and product teams to assess, initiate, refine, and drive appropriate functional solutions.
• Gather requirements from key stakeholders and break those down into user stories for the scrum team to develop.
• Use AI-assisted tools effectively throughout the discovery and requirements process: interrogating business needs, stress-testing assumptions, and helping the team get to sharper questions faster.
• Work alongside an AI-first engineering team that uses AI tools as part of how they think and build.
• Engage purposefully in all Scrum ceremonies, advancing work through clear decision-making and preventing ambiguity from becoming a blocker.
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of refined user stories ready for development.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Write acceptance criteria that are clear enough that a developer doesn't have to guess and a tester doesn't have to interpret.
• Plan and prioritize product backlog and development of the product.
• Identify, manage, and prioritize cross-team priorities.
• Contribute to final approval and acceptance testing
• Effectively communicate the product strategy to key stakeholders and team members.
• Play an engaged role in mitigating non-technical impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Partner across different teams and departments as needed to coordinate delivery plans, testing, training, and support.
• Partner closely with engineering, user experience, customer experience strategy, and design teams to ensure quality and consistency of experience.
• Incorporate stakeholder input into product roadmap while effectively negotiating trade-offs of conflicting priorities based on value to the business and customer.
• Present to internal stakeholders as the product subject matter expert with in-depth understanding of the business and product.
• Participate in inception workshops in cross-functional group settings
• Coordinate troubleshooting and analysis of issues from internal and external users and solutions all the way through resolution.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Skills

Agile knowledge

AI tools familiarity

User stories writing

Acceptance criteria

Communication skills

Leadership

CSPO within 1.5 yrs

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

American Specialty Health is seeking a Product Owner II to join our Product department. You will shape, refine, and prioritize what the team builds, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver outcomes that matter and improve health at scale.

You’ll work with an AI-first engineering team and lead backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and sprint planning while driving strategic product decisions across teams.